Webcast Video: What Publishers Need to Know about Digitization

Below you’ll find the full recording from the recent TOC Webcast, “What Publishers Need to Know about Digitization,” with Liza Daly.
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Topics covered include:

• What’s XML and do you need it?
• What’s the cost-benefit analysis versus PDF or other formats?
• What should you consider when selecting a vendor?
• Should you use a centralized platform or go on your own?
• How can you monetize your digital offerings?

Tech Therapy: The Future of College Libraries

Tech Therapists Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast discuss what college libraries mean to campuses, the buildings’ changing aesthetics, and how they will be designed for future use.

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

Pervasive Media: Delivering ‘the right thing in the moment’

21st Century lifestyles and business practices demand value delivery on the move and in many situations. An explosion in mobile services is being fuelled by the availability of powerful media-rich mobile devices and pervasive networking. Successful solutions in this high growth area will be those that can deliver ‘the right thing in the moment’. That is, high value services will be those that are tuned to the user’s situation and so deliver the best experience. Delivering the right thing in the moment changes the way content is consumed and the timing of its availability. It changes the use of space and time and so: the way the creative industries think about delivering content, the way advertisers think about just in time messaging and tracking; and the way information is accessed throughout an organization. This paper considers the implications for technology and application research. We describe the need for: an extensible and scaleable context framework with privacy, trust and security policies embedded; new modes of interface between the physical and the digital environment; and a programme that builds expertise amongst practitioners as the technology develops in its early stages.

+ Full Paper (PDF; 99 KB)

Source: HP Labs

Libraries vs. IT Departments

Librarians and IT staff might share more similarities than they would like to admit. Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast, Tech Therapy’s hosts, talk about the rift between the two groups.

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education (Tech Therapy)

The Evolving Role of the Business Researcher: A Dow Jones Research Study

Today’s Information Professionals and knowledge workers perform a far more valuable function to your business than discovering and organising information. It is in the extraction of facts, in-depth analysis and timely distribution of information where they really add value. In late 2007. Dow Jones launched Research the Researcher, an on-going survey of Professional Researchers, focused on bringing the customer experience forward in product strategy. Drawing from this in-depth research and analysis, Dow Jones Factiva has developed strategic enhancements such as De-duplication, Widgets and Factiva Reader for External Distribution to enable customers to become more efficient and demonstrate value throughout their organizations.

Please join Dow Jones for a one hour webinar where we will share key findings from this research project. Product Manager, Ken Sickles and Market Research Manager, Ellen Maccabe will discuss the results of our research and how emerging technologies, organizational trends, and end user expectations are impacting the way researchers work.

Free registration required.

Insights regarding undergraduate preference for lecture capture (PDF; 412 KB)

This research study set out to understand student attitudes toward the value of adding lecture capture to existing courses and to assess preferences for classes with a streaming option. A survey was sent to 29,078 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2008. Average response rate exceeded 25%. Of the survey participants, a significant number of undergraduates (47%) have taken a class in which lectures were recorded and made available online.
Respondents answered 10 multiple-choice questions related to their perspective regarding streaming lectures and preference for streaming content.

Source: UW E-Business Institute

See: I’ll Take My Lecture to Go, Please (Inside Higher Ed)

Hurricane Gustav Coverage

+ WWL Radio

+ WRNO Radio

+ WJBO (Baton Rouge)

+ WWL-TV

+ WDSU-TV

+ WGNO-TV

+ WVUE-TV (FOX Eight)

+ NOLA 38 (CW)

+ View Multiple Video News Streams on Same Page

+ NOAA Weather Radio (New Orleans)
++ NOAA Weather Radio (Mobile, AL)

+ WAFB (Baton Rouge)

+ WBRZ TV (Baton Rouge)

See Also: Gustav News Ticker (via NewsNow)

Podcast Downloading 2008

As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in our February-April 2006 survey. Still, podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few internet users download podcasts on a typical day.

+ Full Report (PDF; 79 KB)

Source: Pew Internet & American Library Project

New from the Science Reference Service at the Library of Congress: Podcasts, Webcasts & Other Digital Media Files in Science, Technology, and Medicine

Source: LC

Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The program was recorded in April and runs about 2 hours. It includes thoughts about the Wikipedia. Speakers include:

MODERATOR:
Henry Jenkins
Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities
Director of Comparative Media Studies Program

PANELISTS:
Cass Sunstein
Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence,
Law School and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Yochai Benkler
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
Co-director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society,
Harvard University

Source: MiT World

From the site:

Take the opportunity to see our curators bring our collections to life. Journeys and Crossings cybercasts feature Library staff focusing on a specific issue while also highlighting the Library’s collections. Also included are links to online resources of interest and bibliographies for those wishing to learn more about the subject of interest.

Source: LC

A 24×7 stream of the CNN-IBN (English language) channel live from India.

Direct Feed

From the site:

In the early 1960’s, broadcast journalist Mike Wallace donated 65 recorded interviews made in 1957-58 from his show “The Mike Wallace Interview” to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. The bulk of these were 16mm kinescope film recordings, some of the earliest recordings of live television that were possible, and that survive today. Many of these have not been seen for over 50 years, and they represent a unique window into a turbulent time of American, and world history. From Senators to strippers, Ku Klux Klansmen to Nobel Prize winners, Mike Wallace has interviewed them all, and we invite you to view The Mike Wallace Interview .

Source: The School of Information, University of Texas

From a DJ article:

YouTube plans to launch an area for independent filmmakers to show their work and generate revenue for the films’ producers.

In the past, YouTube limited the length of clips to 10 minutes to keep bandwidth costs down. The Silicon Alley Insider blog reported YouTube will examine selling advertising on longer clips. The maximum file size for films will be one gigabyte, which is nearly enough space for a full-length film.

Source: Dow Jones

Google’s Joe Kraus on How to Make the Web More Social

Can the Internet be made more social? This is a question with which Joe Kraus, director of product management at Google, constantly has to grapple. He believes every killer app on the web — instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photo-sharing — has succeeded because it helps people connect with one another. For Kraus, this means the Internet has an inherently social character, but it can be enhanced further — an area he continues to explore through Google initiatives such as Open Social and Friend Connect. Wharton legal studies professor Kevin Werbach spoke with Kraus recently about the increasing socialization of the Internet. Kraus will speak about social computing at the Supernova conference in San Francisco on June 16.

Audio also available.

Source: Knowledge@Wharton